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NEWARK, N.J. — The star of Tuesday afternoon’s Super Bowl Media Day circus arrived at his podium early and talked long before anyone told him to. More than 75 minutes later, his head coach stayed parked in his seat, too, still answering questions after it was necessary.

In fact, other than silence from a running back who likes contact more than questions, the inexperienced Seattle Seahawks appeared casual and comfortable meeting the masses at Media Day, equally at ease fielding questions about football and felonious pop stars.

“Do you have anything to say to Justin Bieber?” one man shouted at star corner Richard Sherman, who laughed. “No,” he said. “No, I don’t.”

It was one of the rare times the suddenly infamous Sherman and his teammates found themselves mum. They appeared to fully embrace the attention despite being the first team since the Buffalo Bills in 1990 to enter this week without a Super Bowl veteran on the roster.

“We’re all having fun with it,” wide receiver Percy Harvin said. “We were back there laughing and joking. That’s what we do as a team: laughing and joking. When it’s time to get focused and get on the field, we know how to turn it on.”

Sherman spent his entire session with his volume on max. Surrounded by a throng rivaled only by that for Peyton Manning, he addressed what it meant to be labeled a “thug” in the wake of the NFC championship. “I felt sad for them,” he said.

Still, the added attention might force Sherman to abandon one of this week’s missions.

“I’m going to try to ride the subway, but people won’t let me get around in public much these days,” he said.

But Sherman certainly didn’t cower from anything. Like Manning earlier, he obliged when asked for a hug by an elderly woman working for “The Queen Latifah Show.” He then kissed another TV correspondent upon request before climbing back to the podium.

Safety Earl Thomas referred to the frenzied crowd surrounding them as a “dream come true.” He seemed genuinely delighted when he spotted linebackers coach Ken Norton Jr. filming him from the crowd.

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“That’s my coach,” Thomas said.

Quarterback Russell Wilson traded his thoughts on everything from the inspiration behind his thickening curls — a look reminiscent of Michael Jackson and Bruno Mars, he said — to the matchup with Manning, and a question he couldn’t help but repeat: “Do I think I’d be a better quarterback if I was taller?” (Simple answer: No.)

Only Marshawn Lynch seemed resistant to the mobs around him. The star running back spoke for six minutes, disappeared, then returned only to spend the remainder of the event leaning against a Super Bowl backdrop in a hoodie and sunglasses.

Lynch resisted the urging of team and league media relations officials and stood quietly as reporters snapped cellphone photos and barked the occasional question at him. At one point, he gave a brief interview to the NFL Network’s Deion Sanders.

The NFL reportedly will not fine the running back. It didn’t seem to bother his team, either.

“I heard it was a great six minutes,” Carroll said. “Some comedians make a career off that.”